Improvement in hats and caps



M. ISIDUR 81 F. HEIN.

Hats and Caps.

N0. 167,538, Patented Sept-7,1875.

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MORITZ ISIDOR, OF NEW YORK, AND FERDINAND HEIN, OF BROOKLYN, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN HATS AND CAPS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 167,538, datedSeptember 7, 1875; application filed July 3, 1874.

To all whom "it may concern:

Be it known that we, MORITZ ISIDOR, of New York, in the county and Stateof New York, and FERDINAND HEIN, of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings andState of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inthe Manufacture of Hats and Caps of plush or nappy material, of whichthe following is a specification:

This invention relates to a novel method of manufacturing hats and capsfrom plush or goods having a nap, its object being simultaneously toblock,shape, and emboss such articles for the purpose intended, and atthe same time, by a peculiar manner of embossing the same, to give thearticles a highlyornamental appearance, and disguise to a considerableextent, and partially conceal, the seams by which the different partsforming the hat or cap are united, so as to give or impart to the samethe appearance of'having been made of one undivided piece.

Our invention consists in the production of a new and improved articleof manufacture, the same consisting in a hat or cap the crown of whichis made up in sections from plush or nappy goods, and which has its evensurface broken up by lines of ornamentation, partially concealing thesame, which unite the series of sections together, as will hereinafterappear.

In the drawing, the letter A represents a cap or hat the crown of whichis formed of pieces of plush, united to each other by sewing orotherwise. The pattern of the cap does not form any part of ourinvention; nor'do we confine ourselves to any particular method ofcutting or making up the materials of which the article is composed. Wetake the plush or any other nappy material, and having cut and made upthe same into a hat or cap ready for the block or shaping process, wepressit in heated dies, the outer die being provided with ridges, whichare pressed upon the fabric and lay the nap smoothly, formingintaglio-lines corresponding to the location of such ridges, therebyproducing upon the article an appearance as if the same was embossed,the plush or nap between the lines being left in relief or in thenatural condition. The pressed lines are marked B, and the plush or napbetween the lines is marked 0. The design of the ridges in the dies issuch that the lines produced will follow and cross the seams of thearticle in such manner as to break up the same and disguise andpartially conceal them, giving the article the appearance of beingformed of one uniform piece.

Our invention enables us to shape, block, and ornament hats or capssimultaneously, the embossed ridges serving to establish the shape ofthe article, and disguise and partially conceal the seams, greatlyadding to the finish of the article.

From the foregoing it will be seen that we produce a hat or cap byshaping, blocking, and ornamenting the same at one simultaneousoperation, and this, too, by the employment of heated dies, which havethe shape and form of the body, one of said dies having on its innerface a pattern for the purpose of breaking up the even surface, wherebythe seams uniting the sections composing the crown of the hat or cap arepartially covered and the article highly ornamentcd.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is

As a new article of manufacture, a hat or cap the crown of which is madeup in sections from plush or nappy goods, and has its even surfacebroken up by lines of ornamentation, said lines of ornamentationpartially concealing the seams which unite the sections together,substantially as herein shown and described. Y

'MORITZ ISIDOR.

. FERDINAND HEIN. Witnesses:

CHAS. T. BRUEN, JOHN M. HARRINGTON.

